Butterfly Life Cycle

A single leafy plant presents the four stages of a butterfly's life cycle in one clear educational scene. A small egg cluster sits beneath the left leaf, one striped caterpillar crawls across the upper-right leaf, one chrysalis hangs from a lower twig and one adult butterfly flies above the flowers. The stages remain separate and easy to identify without labels. How to colour: Use pale cream and mint green for the tiny eggs, then colour the caterpillar with lime green, sunny yellow and narrow black bands. Make the chrysalis jade green with soft gold dots and a deeper forest-green edge. Colour the adult butterfly vivid orange with black outer cells and small white spots, keeping its body dark brown. Use mixed emerald and leaf greens on the plant, with pink, violet and yellow flowers. Work in life-cycle order, build light layers first and preserve white gaps so every stage remains distinct.

◫ A4 size✎ Bold outlines♡ Ages 3–8

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